Questions tagged [cc-by-sa]
For questions about the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) licenses.
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CC BY-SA 4.0: contribution and distribution clarification
What "distribute" and "contributions" mean exactly for the CC BY-SA 4.0 license?
Let’s take a real example for the sake of illustration: I intend to use the data provided by an online dictionary ...
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Does using a CC-BY-SA image mean you have to license the whole work under CC-BY-SA?
Let's say I want to use some images from Wikimedia Commons which are licensed CC-BY-SA.
I have a few questions about usage, though:
If I use one on my website, will I have to license the whole ...
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If a Web page includes a CC BY-SA 4.0 licensed image, does modifying the page constitute modifying the image?
The situation: There is a Web page and an image from a third party (the image was not created by the owner of the Web page) is included in the Web page among other content. The image was made ...
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CC BY-ND 4.0 and Third-Party Graphics in Publications
As a publisher, we release publications under the following license:
This publication is provided under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution – NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-...
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Can I license artwork that has a mixture of CC BY-SA, public domain, CC0, Pexels licensed images under CC BY-SA?
I have created some artwork that uses images mostly licensed under variations of CC BY-SA. There are also some public domain, CC0, and rarely images from Pexels/similar "free to use" sites. ...
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"Source" file and share alike license [duplicate]
There is a book in pdf that was created from an odt file. The book is licensed under the creative commons share alike license and I would like to modify it. Should the author provide me with the "...
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CC BY-SA 2.5 License marked as denied license in the FOSSA tool after upgrading to React Native 0.74 version
We have an existing React Native project that was upgraded from 0.71.0 to 0.74.0 latest version.
We are us a tool FOSSA to scan the license-related issues in the NPM libraries used in the project.
We ...
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Sharealike for partial content
If I include content/data, modified or not, as part of a program, does the sharealike from cc-by-sa-3 apply to the entire program and source code? Can it be limited to just the content that was copied/...
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Can I legally use content from a CC-BY-SA-licensed wiki in an MIT-licensed video game?
Specifically, I'm talking about the Backrooms Fandom Wiki. Most if not all of the textual content (creative writing) on it is licensed under CC-BY-SA. However, if I want to make a video game based on ...
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Can I use spacy model licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed and don't change the license of my code?
I want to use korean spacy model, but it's licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed, If I add this model to my binary file, will I have to license my code under CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed? (Important part of my program is ...
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Using CC BY SA video with my own copyrighted music
I am a music producer and am releasing an album shortly of which I own the copyright to the tracks (although some Master Recordings are signed to a record label in a commercial agreement).
I would ...
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Stack Exchange's CC-BY-SA and Patents
All contributions to the Stack Exchange Websites are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), either version 2.5, 3.0, or 4.0 depending on the post date. This ...
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does reformatting JSON count as 'transformation' for CC-SA?
I am working with a very large JSON dataset licensed CC-BY-SA. I only need parts of this dataset, and some of the JSON field names are not especially descriptive, so I am re-naming them.
The text of ...
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Can CC-BY-SA code be removed from a larger code base and not have the remaining code bear the CC-BY-SA license?
My understanding of the CC-BY-SA is that if you use a snippet of CC-BY-SA code in a larger project, not only must you reveal the source code of your entire project, but you must also brand the entire ...
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Is HTML-linked content still subject to the CC-BY-SA license?
If someone links to a Github or Gitlab repo in a Stackoverflow post, or a Github or Gitlab gist, is the contained content CC-BY-SA? Let's say I am the sole author of the code on Github/Gitlab?
For a ...